Longlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2026
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 72nd year. The longlisted books are as follows: Rupert Dastur Cloudless (Fig Tree) Christina Fonthes Where You Go, I Will Go (Tinder Press) Connor Hutchinson Dead Lucky...Nicola Williams at the Authors’ Club
We were delighted to welcome back the Crown Court judge, barrister and crime novelist Nicola Williams to our first Authors’ Club lunch of 2026. She last addressed us in August 2023, so we know what a wealth of experience, insight and forensic precision she brings to...Our Absent Friend – Geoff Gudgion
By Nigel C. Winter The Authors’ Club has already written a touching tribute to our friend Geoff Gudgion. However, the duration of my brief association with Geoff followed a very particular course. During that time, I bore witness to the esteem in which he was...Andrew Miller at the Authors’ Club
In December we enjoyed a festive lunch (with crackers!) in the spectacular Victorian dining room of the National Liberal Club. We then welcomed Andrew Miller who was interviewed by Lucy Popescu. She began by saying that his acclaimed new novel, The Land in Winter,...Tom Stoppard: A Tribute
Words by Chris Schuler These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one. On the last weekend of November, I was saddened to learn that the playwright Tom Stoppard had died, aged 88. His work has inspired me...Hallie Rubenhold at the Authors’ Club
By Suzi Feay Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has followed up her pioneering account of Jack the Ripper’s victims, ‘The Five’, with an in depth new look at the case of gambler, fraudster and wife-murderer Dr Crippen. Rubenhold centres female victims rather than male...Members’ News
Authors’ Club member Stephanie Williams’ The Education of Girls: Coming of age in 4 years that changed America 1966-1970 is published this month. This is the story of how the Vietnam war, racial strife and the birth of women’s liberation fundamentally changed women’s...